Hotel Mansfield
- Year
- 1902
- Style
- Beaux-Arts
- City
- Manhattan, NY
The Mansfield Hotel at 12 West 44th Street was designed by Renwick, Aspinwall & Owen in the Beaux-Arts style and completed in 1902 as a 12-story apartment hotel. It was developed by former Vermont governor John G. McCullough and lawyer Frederick B. Jennings, who continued to own it until 1940.
the building
H-shaped facade. The brick-and-stone front is arranged in an H shape divided into three bays: rusticated limestone at the first two stories, red brick above, and the top two floors set within a mansard roof.
The lobby. The hotel contains a large lobby with a coffered ceiling and a room with a skylight that formerly served as a library.
the style
Renwick, Aspinwall & Owen's Beaux-Arts design gave the apartment hotel a formal, symmetrical presence typical of the type in early-1900s Midtown.
More on Beaux-Artsthe architect
Designed by the firm of Renwick, Aspinwall & Owen; the record here notes only this commission for them.
significance
Designated a New York City Individual Landmark in 2012. The building's roughly 130 rooms were converted to co-living spaces in 2021.
nearby
- Century Association Clubhouse
- 30 West 44th Street
- Harvard Club of New York City
- Webster Hotel
- Association of the Bar of the City of New York
- W. R. Grace Building